ESCA vs. FNKO, CLAR, SRM, AOUT, GNSS, KOSS, FTEL, YYAI, KBSX, and MICS
Should you be buying Escalade stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Escalade include Funko (FNKO), Clarus (CLAR), SRM Entertainment (SRM), American Outdoor Brands (AOUT), Genasys (GNSS), Koss (KOSS), Fitell (FTEL), Connexa Sports Technologies (YYAI), FST (KBSX), and Singing Machine (MICS). These companies are all part of the "recreation" industry.
Escalade vs. Its Competitors
Escalade (NASDAQ:ESCA) and Funko (NASDAQ:FNKO) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability and risk.
Funko has a consensus target price of $9.88, indicating a potential upside of 125.46%. Given Funko's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Funko is more favorable than Escalade.
Escalade has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Funko. Funko is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Escalade, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Escalade has a beta of 0.77, suggesting that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Funko has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Funko had 9 more articles in the media than Escalade. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Funko and 5 mentions for Escalade. Escalade's average media sentiment score of 0.38 beat Funko's score of 0.34 indicating that Escalade is being referred to more favorably in the media.
65.2% of Escalade shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.2% of Funko shares are held by institutional investors. 28.8% of Escalade shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of Funko shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Escalade has a net margin of 5.54% compared to Funko's net margin of -1.92%. Escalade's return on equity of 7.49% beat Funko's return on equity.
Summary
Escalade beats Funko on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:ESCA) was last updated on 7/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff